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5 unusual facts about Roméo et Juliette


Cecilia Gasdia

Her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1986 as another 'Juliette', this time in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.

Elena Sokolova

Roméo et Juliette
(musical soundtrack)
by Gerard Presgurvic

Isabelle Ferron

In 1999, she was chosen to play the very energetic Lady Capulet in Gerard Presgurvic's version of Roméo et Juliette.

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour

"Romeo en Julia: van Haat tot Liefde" (Sep. 22, 2002 - March 16, 2003)/(Jan. 27, 2004 - Apr. 25, 2004) -- (Antwerp, Stadsschouwburg Theatre) and Netherlands Tour.

Sofia Nizharadze

Later, she took the leading parts in the musicals “The Wedding Of The Jays” and ”Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour”.


Damien Sargue

Damien Sargue, born 26 June 1981, is a French pop singer known for his performance of Romeo in Gérard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour.

Gregory Stapp

He continued to perform periodically with the company up through 2005, appearing in such parts as Achillas in Giulio Cesare, Brander in La Damnation de Faust, Dansker in Billy Budd, Friar Lawrence in Roméo et Juliette, Lodovico in Otello, the Parson in The Cunning Little Vixen, Pluto in Il ballo delle ingrate, and the Priest in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District among others.

Hector King

Between 2007 and 2008 alone, King had four of his adaptations staged, all in Monterrey, Mexico: the Mexican premieres of Sweeney Todd, Footloose and Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour and the new Mexican productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel and RENT.

Nino Machaidze

Some of the performances in which Machaidze has taken part have also been videotaped and released on DVD, including: Il Trittico, La Scala, 2008; Romeo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2008; I Puritani, Teatro Comunale di Bologna or recently La Bohème with Anna Netrebko in Salzburg.

Raimund Theater

This was followed in 2005 by the German-language version of Romeo & Julia, a musical by Gérard Presgurvic based on Shakespeare.

Sébastien El Chato

Sébastien El Chato also took part in French musical comedy adaptations, very notably in 2001 as Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, de la haine à l'amour, by metteur en scène Gérard Presgurvic.


see also

Cirque d'été

The fourth program on 6 April was billed as a séance Berlioz and included the overture from Weber's Freischütz, excerpts from Berlioz's symphonies Harold en Italie and Roméo et Juliette, and Quasimodo's aria with chorus from Louise Bertin's opera La Esmeralda sung by the tenor Jean-Étienne-Auguste Massol, who had created the role at the Paris Opera in 1836.

Jane Berbié

Other roles included several in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (under Maazel in 1961 and Ozawa in 1979 at the Opéra de Paris), Gontran in Une éducation manquée (1965), Roméo et Juliette, Ascanio in Benvenuto Cellini, and many opérettes.

Leon Major

Among the productions he has directed are: Macbeth, Falstaff, Intermezzo, Volpone, Don Pasquale, Don Carlos, Resurrection, Aida, Don Giovanni, Roméo et Juliette, La traviata, L'elisir d'amore, Carmen (on Boston Common) Eugene Onegin, The Aspern Papers, Cosi fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Peter Grimes.

Tragic Lovers

#"'Love Scene' from Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17" (Hector Berlioz) – 15:59